Finger-nail shears



SePt- 3, 1929. A. H. Kor-:PP 1,727,239

FINGER NAIL SHEARS Filed July 112, 1928v wn-NEss: ATTORNEY PatentedSept. 3, 1929.

UNITED STATES FATENT FMQE.

ALBERT I-I. KOEPP, OF SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.

FINGER-NAIL SHEARS.

Application led July 12, 1928. Serial No. 292,053.

My present invention has reference to a opening 3 and imparting alongitudinal manicure device in the nature of a combinamovement to thedevice, 'will have his nail tion iinger nail cutting shears, iile andedge severed. Obviously the operator must ma` 45 nail smoothing deviceof an extremely simple, nipulate his finger in the proper cutting ofcaeaply constructed, neatly appearing and his nail. f small size thatwill permit of the same being The casing, adjacent to the bottom and atreadily carried in the pocket or hand bag of the center thereof isformed with an inwardtheuser, ly eoncaved portion 8, and directly there-50 To the attainment of the foregoing the inabove there is journaled inthe casing any devention consists in the improvement as heresired numberof burnishing Wheels 9. The

inafter described and definitely claimed. roughened or serrated faces ofthese Wheels In the drawings: are in mesh with each other so that theturn- Figure l is a perspective view of my iining of one Wheel Willimpart a like turning 55 provement. to the remaining Wheel. The user ofthis def- Figure 2 is an approximately central lonvice, after his lingernails are cut employs gitudinal sectional view therethrough. theburnishing Wheels for burnishing his Figure 3 is a transverse sectionalview apnails, and as previously stated, the Vall pro# proximately on theline 3 lVhile the body of my improvement may all irregularities in theedges of the cut nails.

be constructed of any desired material, the The simplicity of theconstruction andthe same is preferably, and as disclosed by theadvantages thereof Will, it is thought, be perdrawings formed from asingle sheet of recfeet-ly apparent to those skilled `in the art 3 ofFigure 2. vided by t-he groove 3 in the block E2 removes 60 tangularmetal which is centrally bent or Without further detailed description,but obf rounded upon itself to provide parallel sides viously I do notWish to be re,s,i'icted to the 2;, 1 1. These sides at the open end ofthe iinprecise details herein set forth and, therefore, provement areheld spaced and are likewise hold myself entitled to make such changesreinforced by ablock 2. The block is centraltherefrom as fairly fallWithin the scope'of ly formed With a groove 3 and the inner Wall what Iclaim. i 70 provided by this groove may be slightly Having described theinvention, I claim: 30 roughened, the said groove serving asameans In adevice for the purpose set forth, a for evening the edges of cut fingernails. plate which is centrally bent upon itself to One or both sides orfaces of the casing or provide two spaced sides, spacer elementsbereceptacle is approximately centrally formed tween the sides andsecured thereto. each of with a longitudinal opening 3 of a size vtopersaid sides having a central longitudinal slot mit of the passage of afinger nail theretherethrough? a pair of cutter Wheels having through.Pivotally secured, as at 4 5, belapping edges journaled on shaftsthatare tween the sides l there are disc cutter Wheels fixed to the sidesand the lapping edges of 6 and 7, respectively, the peripheries of whichthe said Wheels being disposed in a line with 30 heing disposed tobridge the opening or openthe openings in the sides. i 4o ings 3. It isto be understood that the sides In testimony whereof I affix mysignature.

of the casing are closely related, so that a person inserting his fingernail through the ALBERT I-I. KOEPP.

